A Detroit grandmother has turned her front yard into a display of real-life horrors in honor of Halloween.

Larethia Haddon used six dummies to illustrate recent tragedies, including police shootings and the Flint water crisis.

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Haddon began working on the display last Halloween, when she planted a realistic dummy portraying a dead body face down in her yard, Michigan Live reported. Photographs on Haddon's Facebook page show the fully-outfitted dummy draped across her front steps, looking lifeless.

This year, her display is more elaborate, and comes with a message. "We're trying to do something positive instead of just having a dead body laying in the yard," she told Michigan Live. "Want to get people to be a little more focused on the issues, what's going on in the world," she said.

Detroit grandmother Larethia Haddon displayed six dummies in her yard for depicting real-life horrors, including police shootings, abused children, and the Flint water crisis. (Mlive)

Haddon insisted that her yard would become reflective of reality "every single day," if people don't become more aware of the issues Michigan cities face.

Her grandchildren helped inspire the display after they told her they were "afraid of what's going on in the world right now."

Haddon said her granddaughter encouraged her to depict a predator with a knife "because she's afraid to go outside, you know someone is going to get hurt," she said.

The elabrotate Halloween display was inspired by Haddon's grandchildren, who said they were "afraid of what's going on in the world right now." (Mlive)

Her grandson suggested she make a bloodied dummy under a sign that reads, "my hands were up," to depict police shootings, Haddon said.

Other displays include a family of abused children, a victim of a carjacking, and a dummy holding a bottle of contaminated drinking water, to allude to the Flint, Michigan water crisis. "I don't believe anyone should have to live the way people in Flint are being forced to live," she said.